New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday said his government took some "transformational initiatives" to empower people and fight corruption and listed five key personal challenges ... Read more...

New Delhi, Sep 4 (IANS) As tensions between the Anna Hazare-led civil society and the government escalate, several political observers fear the developments can delay the much-awaited Lokpal bill ... Read more...

By Meena Kar
Jan 18, (THAINDIAN NEWS) A reputed American Newspaper has reported that the Stuxnet Worm was a joint brain child of Israel and United States. The reports have stated that although ... Read more...

By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, Nov 30 (IANS) Whistleblower WikiLeaks' disclosure of confidential US documents could cause Nepal's history of its 10-year insurgency and the transition from monarchy to a republic to be ... Read more...

Washington, Sept.29 (ANI): With North Korean leader Kim Jong-il appointing his youngest son as an army general, and giving him his first known official title in an apparent sign that he is ... Read more...

By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) The traditional 'pata chitras' of Bengal, a narrative folk art tradition genre dating back to the 7th century, are moving on with time. The lores ... Read more...

By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, June 22 (IANS) Western Nepal remained paralysed Tuesday as a little-known Hindu organisation enforced a shutdown demanding the restoration of Hinduism as the state religion, the second such disruptive ... Read more...

Istanbul, Feb 25 (DPA) A Turkish court Thursday ruled to jail another group of army officers in an ongoing investigation into an alleged coup plot against the government.
Twenty officers - including five ... Read more...

Tehran, Dec 13 (DPA) Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Sunday again warned the opposition over its efforts to undermine the ruling Islamic establishment.
His warning on state television came after protests in ... Read more...

Abohar, Aug.24 (ANI): The Punjabi Durbar programme of Radio Pakistan has chosen to hurt the feelings of Hindus in border areas by calling the Goddess Kali as "bloodthirsty".In its recent ... Read more...

Kolkata, July 17 (ANI): A day after violent protests by Congress Party workers, Kolkata on Friday observed a shutdown in protest against the attack on party workers allegedly by Communist Party of ... Read more...

London, May 20 (DPA) The British government Wednesday outlined plans for a reform of the discredited expenses system for parliamentarians at the centre of a scandal that has engulfed all the ... Read more...

Washington, May 18 (ANI): Amid political turbulence in Pakistan, and heightened fears about the Taliban and other extremist groups seizing the country's nuclear assets, there has been a rapid expansion of ... Read more...

Washington, Mar 2 (ANI): American drone attacks inside Pakistans tribal areas continue to inflame animosity among the people against the United States and undermine both the government and the Pakistani military, ... Read more...

London, Jan 28 (ANI): The continuing of US strikes in Pakistans tribal areas bordering Afghanistan could undermine the position of President Asif Zardari vis-a-vis the Army, Western defence experts have said.They ... Read more...

Kathmandu, Nov 16 (IANS) The 120-year-old recruitment centre of the Indian Army in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh has stopped enlisting Nepal's Gorkhas for over a year, an MP said here. Indian diplomats ... Read more...

Kolkata, Sep 25 (IANS) Admitting that there was "almost no possibility" of the Nano car rolling out of Singur, a senior West Bengal minister Thursday said Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee would make ... Read more...

By Arun Sahgal
Pakistan is again in the news due to the decision of the ruling coalition to impeach President Pervez Musharraf. India's National Security Adviser (NSA) M.K. Narayanan said that the impeachment ... Read more...

By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) Meet Sonam Tsetan, one of the many young Tibetan filmmakers living in exile outside their country, who is trying to redefine the political turbulence in ... Read more...

By K. Subrahmanyam
The current political turbulence and the calculations about the way in which the smaller political parties will vote on a major issue involving India's changing foreign policy paradigm have highlighted ... Read more...

Lahore, Jan.30 (ANI): Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf attempt to convince European leaders that he is their best bet in so far as combating international extremism and terrorism has been largely unsuccessful, according ... Read more...

London, Nov 22 (ANI): A British think-tank, the Pakistan Security Research Unit (PSRU), has warned that in the current political turbulence the chances of Pakistans nuclear assets falling into the hands of ... Read more...